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1) Loser
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Even though his classmates from first grade on have considered him strange and a loser, Daniel Zinkoff's optimism and exuberance and the support of his loving family do not allow him to feel that way about himself.
Author
Series
Fudge books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
A summer in Tarrytown, N.Y., is a lot of fun for ten-year-old Sheila even though her friends make her face up to some self-truths she doesn't want to admit.
5) Short
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Very short for her age, Julia grows into her sense of self while playing a munchkin in a summer regional theater production of The Wizard of Oz"--
6) Release
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Struggling with his family's religious beliefs, an employer's inappropriate advances, and his unrequited love for his ex, Adam finds his life complicated when his best friend announces she's doing her senior year abroad.
7) You matter
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text remind the reader that no matter what happens or how one feels, he or she matters.
Author
Publisher
Joy Street Books
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Struggling with his feelings of inadequacy and his failure to make the basketball team in his new school, seventeen-year-old Joe Faust finds himself willing to trade his soul for one perfect season of basketball.
11) Wonder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
13) The cutting edge
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the verge of becoming a supermodel in the Big Apple, Leslie is assaulted by a drug gang and disfigured with a broken bottle. Without her perfect face, she is lost and no amount of surgery can ever make her what she once was. Trying to hide her face from the world, Leslie encounters unrequited love, thoughts of suicide, and her assailant out to finish the job. Little does she know that a young girl named Angel will turn it all around, showing Leslie...
14) See no color
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab, a division of Lerner Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Alex has always identified herself as a baseball player, the daughter of a winning coach, but when she realizes that is not enough she begins to come to terms with her adoption and her race.
15) Every last word
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off, a girl coping with Purely-Obsessional OCD learns to accept herself and take control of her life through her experiences in poetry club"--
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
Español
Description
Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates.
18) Tumbling
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After sacrificing their childhoods, Grace, Leigh, Camille, Wilhelmina, and Monica are competing in the two days of the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials, after which their lives will change forever.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Four freshmen arrive at college from completely different worlds: Lainey, a California party girl with a flair for drama; Tyson, a brilliant scholar and law school hopeful from D.C.; Summer, a recruited athlete and perfectionist from the Midwest; and Hannah, a mild-mannered southerner who is content to quietly round out the circle of big personalities. Soon after moving into their shared dorm, they strike up a conversation in a study lounge, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harlem teenager Nala is looking forward to a summer of movies and ice cream until she falls in love with the very woke Tye and pretends to be a social activist.
Nala Robertson reluctantly agrees to attend an open mic night for her cousin-sister-friend Imani's birthday. Tye Brown, the MC is perfect, except-- he is an activist and is spending the summer putting on events for the community when Nala would rather watch movies and try out the new seasonal...
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